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Returning from a review at the Champ de Mars in Paris / Frederick George Byron Esqr. del. ; engraved by Lewis.

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Frederick Christian Lewis
1779-1856

Returning from a review at the Champ de Mars in Paris / Frederick George Byron Esqr. del. ; engraved by Lewis.

London : London Published, Novr.1. 1802, by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street (removed from Oxford Street), [1802].
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image: 381 x 571 mm; trimmed sheet: 395 x 571 mm
Peel 1718
Notes
Library's copy trimmed with loss of plate mark and image.
"Probably the return from the 'Fête de la Fédération' of 14 July 1790"--British Museum Catalog online.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Soldiers in double file march (left to right) in a Paris street diagonally across the design. They are led by a fat debauched-looking monk who leers at a nun by his side; both carry drawn sabres. A fiddler capers in front of the pair. Next is a drummer; the soldiers are correctly dressed and carry bayoneted muskets. A man with a long loaf of bread waves his hat frantically. In the foreground (left) is a shoeblack who, gazing at the monk and nun, applies his brush to the stocking of his enraged customer. Other spectators are a lawyer, an officer arm-in-arm with a coquettish girl. On the extreme right a 'limonadier', his vessel strapped to his back, turns its tap into the glass of a dwarfish boy or man. The lower part of buildings abutting on the street forms a background: a church wedged between a house (left) and a barber's shop (right) indicated by wigs and implements painted on the shutter Cf. George.

Associated names
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, After, artist.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department